Artistic Director of the
Festival – Valery Gergiev
The international ballet festival
is one of the most significant events in the ballet season, drawing
ballet-lovers from all over the world to St Petersburg. The main strategy of the
festival is to attract stars of world ballet to Russia’s cultural capital.
Regular participants in the festival include Mariinsky Theatre stars Diana Vishneva, Ulyana Lopatkina, Alina Somova, Viktoria Tereshkina, Yekaterina Kondaurova, Igor Zelensky, Leonid Sarafanov, Andrian Fadeyev and Vladimir Shklyarov. Since it was established,
the Mariinsky international ballet festival has seen performances by such
internationally acclaimed stars as Vladimir Malakhov, Agnes Letestu, Aurelie
Dupont, Mathieu Ganio (Opera National de Paris),
Roberto Bolle, Maria Kowroski, Manuel Legris, Alina Cojocaru, Johan Kobborg, Paloma Herrera, Nikolai Tsiskaridze and Svetlana Zakharova at the theatre. In line
with tradition, each festival opens with a ballet premiere and it concludes with
a gala concert featuring stars of international ballet.
MARIINSKY BALLET FESTIVAL 2014: Mariinsky (Kirov) Opera and Ballet
theatre | Mariinsky hall plan |
Mariinsky Slide Show |
Mariinsky 3D View |
About Valery
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